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I'm M. Jackson Wilkinson, a technologist, designer, speaker, educator, and writer in San Francisco. I recently moved from Washington, DC to work as a Senior Product Designer at LinkedIn, and am happy to take your feedback. I'm from Philadelphia, went to Bowdoin College in Maine, root for the Phillies, and love to sing.
Data visualization magnate Tufte will be part of an advisory board that oversees Recovery funds and keeps the public informed of how those funds are or aren’t being used.
I’m doing this because I like accountability and transparency, and I believe in public service. And it is the complete opposite of everything else I do. Maybe I’ll learn something. The practical consequence is that I will probably go to Washington several days each month, in addition to whatever homework and phone meetings are necessary.
Good to see that the administration is putting such a high priority in ensuring that this kind of work has some real design thinking behind it.
Great circular visualization. As for the numbers themselves, they’re from W3Schools.com, which clearly has a standards slant, so take them with that grain of salt.
A pretty awesome visual and textual analysis of the classic book format.
Nick Kallen, one of the Twitter Engineers:
Human beings need to understand one another in terms of primordial intimacies because man has no other tools for understanding the solicitations of man. But if the size of the world no is on longer amenable to intimacy technologies, then mankind must invent information technologies that rehumanize the world. Thus the proliferation of social software on the web. The reification of the social graph in Friendster; the Facebook Newsfeed and the Twitter; and the Foursquare all serve this one purpose: to rehumanize an inhumane world.
Great article on Seed Magazine about the shortcomings of many of the data visualization methods we often see these days:
Some of the most confusing new visualizations are the popular network diagrams, which are intended to show connections between nodes and invite inferences about the forces that govern the connections. Numerous groups have produced maps of social networks, internet traffic, and other complicated phenomena, but the impression one gets is merely of connectivity, rather than of any of the patterns the visualization purports to convey. Few obey the principles of perception-informed design or Edward Tufte’s rules for graphical integrity, which state that graphics should make viewers think about the subject matter, not design.
As is often said, great design should be invisible. Crazy infographics may be cool, but they often don’t really make things more understandable than a more simplistic approach
The DC Metro has revised their map to reflect a few changes to the system— and made it harder to read at the same time.